Quote Originally Posted by garyng
Ok, solved my own problem. KNOPPIX doesn't have the necessary /dev/pg? created, I have to manually made it.

Now that cdrecord can see the device, could someone tell me how to burn the downloaded ISO images ?

#cdrecord speed=1 dev=1,0,0 /whatever.iso
I cd to the directory my .iso is in then do a:

root@cromag:/home/glenn# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-30-EN.iso

Of course you'll want dev=1,0 You only need to give the BUS & TARGET, LUN is optional.

give me some warning like may not be able to fill the data etc. and talk about overburn. I wanted to burn it on a CD-RW rather than CD-R, would that make any difference ?
The error about disk size can be caused when you use incorrect syntax & cd-rw should be OK.

Here's what the ouput looked like:

Cdrecord 2.01a05 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX100E '
Revision : '2.0h'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1040128 = 1015 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 699 MB
Total size: 803 MB (79:38.6 = 358401 sectors
Lout start: 804 MB (79:40/51) = 358401 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19)
ATIP start of lead out: 359847 (79:59/72)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 27
Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
Blocks total: 359847 Blocks current: 359847 Blocks remaining: 1446
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 6 seconds.
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1 times full, min fill was 0%.

Just hit CTRL+c if you want to cancel the burn.